Secuiidaca. diadf-lphia octandrta. '2\i) 



;7. B. nudnlula. ii. 



Aiimial, ramoiis. Leaves alttniatc, ovale fcnlafo, much 

 waved, from three to five-nerved. Spikes ttruiiual ; flowers 

 crested. Capsule reniform, marf/his prickly. 



A native of Prince of Wales' Island. 



SECURIDACA. Schreb.gm. N. 1156. 

 Cahfx thi-ee leaved, Carol papilionaceous, with the ban- 

 ner two-leaved, without the wings. Leijame (capsule) ovate, 

 one-celled, one seeded, ending in a lignlate wing. 



S. paniciilita. R. 



Shrubby, scandent. Leaves oblong. Panicle terminal 

 anl axillary. Flowers crested, as in many of the Poljif/afas. 



F( rinjer, the vernacular name in Silliet, where, as well as 

 Chittagong, it is indigenous, growing to be a large, very ra- 

 mous, bushy shrub. Flowering in August, and the seed ri- 

 pening in April. 



Stem stout and woody, covered with smooth, olive-coTonr- 

 ed bark. Branches numerous, extremities drooj)ing, round 

 and smooth, even polished. Leaves alternate, bifarions, short- 

 petioled, oblong, entire, acute, smooth on both sides, co- 

 loured, from three to four inches long, and from one to two 

 broad. Petioles very short, and inserted on a brown, glan- 

 dular receptacle, which has a pit on each side, and no other 

 stipula. Panicles terminal with smaller ones from the exte- 

 rior axills,large,ramous, open. Flowers numerous, butstand- 

 inosingle, long pedicelled, small, red. C'a/^.v three-leaved. 

 Leaflets ovate-oblong, one incumbent, and two under the 

 flower laterally. Toro/ sub-papilionaceous, five petalled, the 

 two largest inserted on the sides, and from the banner, exte- 

 rior ; they are oval, and taper at the base, spreading out, and 

 ascending; the interior three, two of them the Avings, spatu- 

 late, and inverted on the posterior sides of the boat-shaped, 

 one-leaved, crested carina, all are curled on the n^argins and 



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